Good Tidings Statement of Faith
- We
believe in the verbal inspiration of the Bible, consisting of both Old
and New Testament, inspired by the Holy Spirit, historically accurate,
and without error in the original writings. We believe the Bible to be
the final authority for life, faith and practice.
- We believe
in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy
Spirit, as revealed by the Scriptures.
- We
believe in the pre-existence of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His
deity as God, His incarnation, truly man and truly God, His sinless
life on earth, died a vicarious death and was victoriously and bodily
resurrected; that He ascended to he right hand of the Father from where
He will personally come again to judge the living and the dead.
- We
believe that through the atoning work of Christ on the cross, God was
reconciled to man; that it is absolutely essential for man now to be
reconciled to God; regenerated by the Holy Spirit; that this
regenerative work takes place only as man repents of his sin and
receives Jesus Christ as his only Savior.
- We
believe that it is the work of the Holy Spirit to regenerate
individuals and that He indwells those individuals to whom He has
imparted eternal life; that it is His work to baptize each true
believer into the body of Christ, the Church, and seal each one
eternally in that body; that it is He who enables the true child of God
to live a godly life and serve God acceptably according to His will and
by His power.
- We
believe that the Great Commission places a responsibility upon every
believer to have a part in getting the Gospel to every creature under
Heaven according to the will of God; that this should be accomplished
through a proper use of all means that are in keeping with the Word of
God and the Spirit of God.
- We
believe in the New
Testament Church, that all believers are members of one invisible
church, the body of Christ, as manifest in the local Church for the
purposes of Christian fellowship, scriptural ordinances and the
preaching, teaching, and evangelism in local communities.
- We
believe in the Second
Coming of Jesus Christ-in power and glory to claim His own, and that He
will come to earth to establish a literal earthly millennial kingdom.
- We
believe in the bodily
resurrection of both the saved and the lost; in the eternal blessedness
in Heaven of those who have believed unto salvation and the everlasting
damnation of those who have not, which teaching we believe to be
according to the Word of God.
